Microsoft Windows, every mention
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The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 18:51 Brendan Eich So the first version was not real, and the second version was kind of a joke, and the third version was starting to tell you where it could get to, and the fourth version was quite good on Windows, pretty much only on Windows.
- ▶ 19:21 Brendan Eich They had the Windows Monopoly, but what they did in tying the browser to it and threatening Compaq with revocation of the Windows license if
- ▶ 22:52 Brendan Eich And they threw it away or kind of threw most of it away and did a Windows only
- ▶ 29:23 Brendan Eich I had to recruit Ben Goodger out of Netscape to take over for Blake, and that went from Firefox, 0.6 on to one oh, and Ben did a lot of the important work on add-ons and search integration and making it really sing on Windows.
- ▶ 29:44 Brendan Eich But they didn't care about Windows.
- ▶ 41:29 Brendan Eich They were certainly still distributing it on Windows.
- ▶ 1:37:36 Brendan Eich Edge is somewhat privileged in Windows, which is a little hard on us.